A 30-year man from Perth has recently been sentenced to five years imprisonment after he failed to disclose his HIV status to four sexual partners, all of whom later tested positive for the virus.Appearing before Judge Troy Sweeney, the Western Australian Court was told that the offender had been diagnosed with HIV in 2012.
At the time of his diagnosis the offender was also informed of his legal obligations surrounding living with the virus.The following year the offender denied he was HIV positive to a man he began having unprotected sex with.
The man later tested positive for the virus.In 2014 the offender began chatting to another man on the dating app Squirt. In their conversations the offender stated that he did not have HIV.
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